Stirling Newberry <[log in to unmask]> replies to me and Deryk Barker:
>Scheonberg didn't believe in atonal music either. Siad it was a
>contradiction in terms.
That why he used other systems in (some of) his atonal compositions?
For example; I know an early short atonal work whichs opus number I can't
recall at the moment; Schoenberg uses system on other levels; first a
twelwetoneserie is presented, follows its inversion, follows its
retrogradation, follows its retrograd inversion... etc.
Mats Norrman
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